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- [S73] Rawlings Funeral Home, Book 2, 5 Apr 1945.
Gelman Myers obituary
- [S27] The Daily Times, http://www.thedailytimes.com/, (Blount County, Tennessee), 11 Feb 2009.
Cades Cove memories
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As the microphone passed to Bernard Meyers, he told of his little trick he played in first grade when he asked his teacher if he could be in his friend Bob Coada's class. Coada was in second grade, and the teacher thought Meyers meant to be in Coada's class just for the day. But that's not what he meant. But she agreed. So when he went to school the next year in Townsend, he went right on into third grade, he said.
Meyers took the crowd from laughter to more sobering thoughts as he reminded them how his father died from a heart attack in April 1945 when he went to plow his friend John Tipton's garden.
"We made it somehow, with God's help. Mom always managed to put something on the table," he said, noting that living on a farm, good neighbors and cousins were a great help, too.
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